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It appears from press reports that many North Birmingham drivers did not have a DBS therefore where will HATS drivers come from?

It will be interesting then to see where all the drivers and escorts, if indeed they have any yet, park their cars to do the work. I suspect there will be chaos when the kids go back.

You will have to enter each one separately which really is no big deal

In todays N&P HATS group has applied to use 1 Lancaster Circus as an operating centre. For those of you that do not know this is a large office building on Lancaster Circus occupied by BCC.
The definition of an operating centre is "where your vehicles are normally kept when not in use" How then can 1 Lancaster Circus that has underground parking for about 20 cars be the operating centre for 125 vehicles ???

An NX 27 route driver seems to think it is going Thurlestone and Enenhurst Roads but that seems totally illogical to me plus very narrow roads for large buses. Time will tell I suppose but thanks for all the quotes.

The 27 has been extended from Longbridge station to Cofton. Does anyone know the route it will take ?

As requested attached

At the moment we do not employ fleet numbers so I suppose 20 is the number of vehicles we have fitted with Ticketer

New Enviro 200 pictured on first day of service at Longbridge station. Another commitment to the future from KEVSbus

The Let's Go machines don't have all of the new enviros programmed onto the system.  They've just taken the old machines off the darts and put them on the enviros, so the vehicle registration will not come up when signing on.

The machines can be moved bus to bus without any problem, the machine will not work unless a registered bus is entered into the machine so would be pointless not registering them with TfWM manged services.

I know so that makes about 80% of all machines not being Ticketer which is the preferred option of TfWM and Worcester. Not sure which of the two is best but Ticketer is not cheap

But is that because you operate out with of the WM area as well, which is why Kev's own theirs?  As I understand it, TfWM lease the machines out, hence why every operator in the West Midlands now uses these machines.

Wrong Pat. We have TfWM machines and Worcester machines and not all operators in West Midlands have Ticketer do they

If they are the same as us they do not lease the machines, they are purchased. However TfWM manage them for us and charge a small management fee.

Thanks. Their site looks promising so will call them tomorrow, thanks for the lead

Thanks. Tried tech support but not very helpful other than wanting £800 for a replacement. But thanks everyone for your comments and advice